Repent! and Live


Ezekiel 20:5
     Our God Jehovah chose Israel and swore to the house of Jacob and brought them out of Egypt to the land flowing with milk and honey (most beautiful of all the land). 

     Jesus Christ is the one and only true way who can bring you before God the Father and eventually Heaven. (John 14:6)

Ezekiel 20:8 But they rebelled against me ~
     But Israel has forgotten God and rebelled against Him who brought them out of Egypt and gave the Canan. They made themselves Idols and polluted the land. They profaned His Sabbath, in every high hill and lofty place they offered their Sons and Daughters to Bamoth (a Demon) and made their children walk on fire. They filled their land with Abominations.

Ezekiel 20:25  And in turn I gave to them rules that were not good and regulations ⌊by which they will not live.

Kimchi interprets them of laws, decrees, tribute, and taxes, imposed upon them by their enemies that conquered them. The Targum is,
"and I also, when they rebelled against my word, and would not obey my prophets, cast them far off, and delivered them into the hands of their enemies; and they went after their foolish imagination, and made decrees which were not right:''

see Rom 1:28 ~ And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 

In the same manner, God calls us for repentance. Or else you have to face the consequences (of your sin).
  "The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent," Act 17:30
  "The just shall live by faith"
  Believe in the LORD JESUS CHRIST who died on the cross for bearing all your sin, buried and rose again on the according to the scriptures written about him, the promised Messiah in Old Testament. 

And in turn I gave to them rules that were not good and regulations by which they will not live. - Ezekiel 20:25


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